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ダイヤモンド社の名編集者今野良介さんが、
『ザ・ギャンブラーハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪』について、すばらしい記事を書いてくださいました。
「２兆円ください」を地でいく伝記と、翻訳書を作る過程の話。｜今野良介｜編集者｜note
今野さま、誠にありがとうございます。感謝！
「ザ・ギャンブラー ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪」
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ザ・ギャンブラー ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪
[著] ウィリアム・C・レンペル 無一文から総資産200億ドルへ。ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った「20世紀最強の勝負師」カーク・カーコリアンの生き方と「全取引」。ウォールストリート・ジャーナル、ワシントン・ポスト、シアトルブックレビュー…etc.各紙絶賛の全米ベストセラー、ついに日本上陸!!
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ダイヤモンド社の名編集者今野良介さんが、
『ザ・ギャンブラーハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪』について、すばらしい記事を書いてくださいました。
「２兆円ください」を地でいく伝記と、翻訳書を作る過程の話。｜今野良介｜編集者｜note
今野さま、誠にありがとうございます。感謝！
AN INERVIEW WITH WILLIAM C. REMPLE
by Hayato Uesugi
Interview Script 3
17:28
9. I know you have a strong family unit around you. Your wife Barbara Hyde Pierce is an Award-winning television news producer who worked with CBS. Your brother Carl Rempel, a super computer technician, strongly supports you and made a fantastic website for you. And your kids Jason, Lara and Emma make their Dad feel richer than any other billionaire. Could you tell me about them?
Like Kirk, I value most my family and, like Kirk, they’re my cheerleaders, my fact-checkers. And Kirk’s sister, who lived to be 102 and was with him to his last days almost, was also a very important member of his team. She’s the one who could tell him the truth, no matter how hard it was to take. I enjoyed learning more about her over the course of looking into Kirk because she was such a force of nature.
18:51
10. I was very happy to be able to translate and include your original essay “Kirk Kerkorian’s Seven Secrets to Success” for Japanese readers. Thank you very much. Could you add a little more information about it for them?
Well, the last thing Kirk would ever do was say he was an expert about something. The last thing he would do was to say, “I know the secrets of success.” Not one, not seven, not any number. He would never claim to be an authority on anything. He was that kind of modest man. But if you study him as I have, as a biographer I was able to look into his life in a way that allowed us to say, “Here are some examples of things that he did that made a big difference in his success.
And as I mentioned before, the loyalty that he generated with his aides and partners came from his integrity and generosity of spirit. Those things are universal. They’re not American or Japanese or Armenian or anything. They are human values. I collected those and put them down for sharing with the Japanese audience. I think it’s such a great window into the character and power of a man of such a small, unknown person to be such an inspiration. I’m glad you get to see them. I’m glad he wasn’t here to object, because he would definitely object to anyone putting things into his mouth things that made it look like he was boasting. He would be quite unwilling to do that.
21:09
11. Although we are now in the very difficult situation after the outbreak of COVID-19, if Kirk Kerkorian was still alive, what do you think he would try to do for people in the States and all over the world?
Well, Kirk Kerkorian was a man who really hated to see suffering; he wanted to help in any way he could. In 1988 the Armenian nation, Soviet Armenia then, was hit by a devastating earthquake that killed a couple hundred thousand people and left the country in shambles physically. What Kirk did was remarkable. He created an airlift of relief supplies, food and building materials and medicine, and started an airlift that went on after the earthquake for 20 years. It was an airlift of the magnitude of the Berlin airlift back in the 1940s. But in this case it was completely financed by Kirk Kerkorian and Armenian charity groups. Kirk’s contribution was of the airplanes and the steady supply. So it’s not just if he was here today.
The fact is, like I mentioned earlier, his wealth continues to be in the service of charities of efforts to improve medical care and scientific research. So chances are pretty good that some of the billions that Kirk left behind are to this day being used—perhaps to help cure the COVID-19. So Kirk is still with us in a very positive way.
23:20
12. Finally, please give us your message to Japanese readers.
I hope you enjoy getting to know Kirk Kerkorian as much as I enjoyed sharing his story with the world. I’m honored and pleased that Kirk’s story will be part of Japanese literature from this day on. Thank you for this opportunity and it’s been a pleasure.
23:53
I can’t conclude this interview without showing my appreciation for you sparing your precious time with me for this interview. Thank you very much for allowing me the opportunity to talk with you and to introduce a great author to the Japanese audience.
Thank you very much, Bill.
AN INERVIEW WITH WILLIAM C. REMPLE
by Hayato Uesugi
Interview Script 2
11:17
5. You sometimes compare Kirk Kerkorian to Donald Trump in this publication. What is the difference between them? And do you think there was a possibility that Kirk Kerkorian could have become the President of the United States? If so, what kind of country would the United States have been?
It would have been a much nicer White House, but there’s no way that Kirk would have ever run for president. Ever. He hated politics and was terrified of public speaking, and shy at that. There are so many ways that they are different. They are polar opposites. The world can see the difference right away because there is the name “Trump” on every building that Trump has ever been involved in, every project. He’s on hotels, he’s on casinos, on steaks and universities and that sort of thing.
Kirk put his name on nothing. He was the owner of MGM Studios and did not put his name on his parking spot. But there are so many ways. When it comes to their wealth, Donald Trump is a boaster. He faked his way onto a Forbes list one year. Kirk never talks about his wealth. He doesn’t participate personally in any interviews about his wealth—even the Forbes people can’t talk to him.
Then there’s the bankruptcies. Kirk has never flushed out a debt by declaring bankruptcy. Donald Trump has done 5, 6, 7, I don’t know how many, maybe 9 bankruptcies. So they’re very different there. One of the ways they’re particularly different: In the White House Trump has been very demanding of loyalty. He fired a lot of people he considered having insufficient loyalty to him. In the case of Kirk Kerkorian, I was asking some of his people specifically about that. Why do people stay with him so long? He has so many loyal top executives and one of then explained. He said that Kirk takes all the risks but he shares all the credit. Whether times are good or bad, it’s always the same. He takes the risk and shares the credit. And that inspires loyalty. So Kirk doesn’t demand loyalty, he inspires it, and that’s a big difference.
14:19
6. Please let us know what was the most enjoyable for you and what was the most challenging for you in writing Gambler?
Well, just getting to know this fascinating man was a treat. I didn’t know him either—the same as my editor. So this was an opportunity to get to know one of the captains of industry who had been so overlooked and to share his legacy with the country.
14:58
7. The Gambler is a tremendously enjoyable book. For me, it is Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Thomas Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again. I believe many readers would like to keep on reading it, and I wanted to keep on translating this book. Thus, many of us want to say, “Kirk, please stay alive!” My question is that: if he was still alive now, what kind of other great achievements would he make?
The fact is, Kirk did a very good job of staying alive for a very long time. He lived 98 years and kept very busy right up until the end. Furthermore, his legacy didn’t die when he died. He continued to give generously as a philanthropist. He gave a billion dollars during his life and more than that after his passing. To this day Kirk is helping to improve the world with his legacy, generosity and his wealth at the end was all given to charity. Medical research, scientific inquiry, all sorts of things are being aided to this moment by Kirk’s legacy.
16:39
8. You are an established journalist and nonfiction writer who has published great books like this The Gambler as well as At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel. You’re one of the most prolific authors in the States. Just like Kirk Kerkorian, I believe you are very energetic and have a lot of ideas. Could you let us know about your current project?
I do have a lot of ideas, but that’s all they are right now. I have lots of projects underway, but none of them far enough that I can talk about them yet. I look forward to sharing them with you later.
AN INERVIEW WITH WILLIAM C. REMPLE
by Hayato Uesugi
Interview Script 1
Hello everyone. This is Hayato Uesugi, a Japanese editor, translator, writer, and English and translation lecturer in Tokyo.
With me online today is the one and only William C. Rempel, the author of The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History. That national best seller which was highly acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Seattle Book Review and other media, is finally being released in Japan!
Hello Bill.
0:50
1. You never planned to write a biography of Kirk Kerkorian. As you mentioned in “A Note to Readers,” you have never met Kirk Kerkorian and you soon found that the information about him was so limited. “His privacy should be protected even beyond the grave.” Why did you decide to write his biography, although you had a lot of hindrances?
Well, the fact is I didn’t decide to write it, it was offered to me by an editor at Harper Collins who read the New York Times obituary and found that he was this person she’d never heard of who was a self-made billionaire. Who, as a teenager was a boxing champion, a daredevil airplane aviator. He built modern Las Vegas, three of the biggest hotels in the world over that period of years. He bought and sold MGM Studios three times, each time making another fortune. He owned a controlling interest in each of the three American auto makers – Chrysler, Ford and General Motors.
This was somebody who was such a prominent man in American business, and yet this editor, who was well-read and well-informed at Harper Collins, never heard of him. She wondered how can this be? How can somebody so fascinating could be so unknown. So she contacted me to see if I knew about him and if I would be interested in finding out more about him. That’s how I became the biographer of Kirk Kerkorian, the man no one knew.
But you see, understand that Kirk was unknown on purpose. He was, by design, a private man. He had no public relations division or publicist. In fact, his lawyers and business associates were all in the business of keeping him so private that he could be comfortable in his own world. This prominent billionaire businessman would walk the streets of Beverly Hills without an entourage—no bodyguards, no swarm of friends and hangers-on. He drove his own car—it was usually a simple Ford or a Jeep. So he was very different from the business people who thrive on celebrity themselves. He was no Donald Trump, for instance.
4:03
2. What most attracted you with Kirk Kerkorian? Please tell us about his personal magnetism.
Kirk had very little personal magnetism. He toned himself down to the point that he was almost invisible in a crowd. He was very shy. He was reticent—he never wanted to be the center of attention. If he was in some big public event you’d be more likely to find him in a corner somewhere sipping a drink trying to stay out of the limelight. So that wasn’t what attracted me to him. It was his success—his comfort with risk was incredible, so learning a bit about where that came from and how that evolved was a big challenge and part of the story.
So as a journalist I was intrigued. There were people from Kerkorian’s world who didn’t want this book. They were concerned that he would not have approved. Privacy was so important to the guy, as you’d mentioned. They wanted his anonymity to go to the grave with him. But to me his story was so important, so revealing, so downright exciting, that I wanted to tell his story. I didn’t want his legacy and his life to be lost to history. As a journalist who often wrote stories people didn’t want to have published, I guess I felt a little like the bull chasing the red flag, so I went after it and that was the challenge.
6:10
3. As for writing The Gambler, I believe that you were strongly influenced by Dial Torgerson, your late colleague at the Los Angeles Times. Could you tell us a little bit about him?
Sure. Dial Torgerson was at first a business writer at the LA Times, where I worked also for 36 years. He discovered Kirk Kerkorian as a business writer, covering his early days. Well before Kirk became a billionaire, Dial was already interested in the fortune he was acquiring in aviation and other fields. But Dial had the advantage that I did not of getting to talk to Kirk Kerkorian’s family and friends, because by the time I came along they were all dead. Kirk lived to be 98—he outlived everybody from his early days. Classmates, school mates, early partners and all his family pretty much passed before he died, and he died at 98.
And now I entered the picture. Dial’s book, which came out in 1973, had very early stories about Kirk that I had no access to, so his access to Kirk’s early days are very important to my work. In doing this story I used a lot of Dial’s early interviews. Dial was a very important journalist at the LA Times. Later he became a foreign correspondent. Unfortunately he was killed in action covering the civil wars in Central America in the early 1980s. He was killed on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere—a loss to his family and friends, and to journalism.
8:35
4. I’m afraid Kirk Kerkorian became better known in general after the sensational relationship with Lisa Bonder, his third wife, was disclosed. Although Kirk was one of the most established business people in the States, most people now remember him not as an admirable billionaire but as an unfortunate guy who was suffering from big trouble with a greedy lady. What do you feel about the fact that only his scandalous side is emphasized?
Well, it’s not the only thing emphasized in “The Gambler.” Kirk didn’t even see that as a scandal, frankly. His problem with that era, that story, that woman, was that his privacy was compromised. He was hauled into court in a public way, and he made the tabloids and scandal sheets of the era. But he did nothing scandalous except the woman who claimed that Kirk was the father of her baby and tried to hold him up for huge amounts of money for that. It wasn’t his baby. But Kirk offered to take care of this baby, even though it wasn’t his, and he did provide for her in his will and a contract that set up a trust fund for her. She grew up to be a very wealthy young woman. But Kirk, for his part, always regarded this episode of his life as a disappointment, not a scandal. It was a disappointment because he was so exposed to the public. Details of his financial life. Details of his personal life all were hauled into a courtroom and exposed to and covered by both the tabloids and the legitimate press, to the point where he felt violated. So in life that was his biggest disappointment. Not because it was a scandal, but because it was a violation of his personal space.
ある著者の本を訳して、それが非常に充実した仕事になれば、またその著者の本を訳してみたいとどんな翻訳者も思うだろう。
自分にとっては『ザ・ギャンブラー ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪』の著者ウィリアム・Ｃ・レンペルがそうだ。
「日本語版オリジナル本」を作ろうと、いろんな形で指示を出してくれたし、はじめてインタビューできてYouTubeに載せることができたのもいい思いだ。
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/getupenglish/e/636ac6273d04d7c116f09062ff9de1cb
このインタビューもようやく音声の聞き取りがすみつつあり、近々公開の予定。
本日のGetUpEnglishはそのやり取りのひとつを紹介する。
UESUGI: You are an established journalist and nonfiction writer who has published great books like this Gambler as well as At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel. You’re one of the most prolific authors in the States. Just like Kirk Kerkorian, I believe you are very energetic and have a lot of ideas. Could you let us know about your current project?
REMPEL: I do have a lot of ideas, but that’s all they are right now. I have lots of projects underway, but none of them far enough that I can talk about them yet. I look forward to sharing them with you later.
「計画はいっぱいあるが、まだ話すことができない」というところにプロフェッショナルとしての仕事ぶりを感じるし、I look forward to sharing them with you later.というコメントには思わず胸が熱くなった。
英語はどれだけ下手でもいいから、話すことで書くことで著者の信頼を得られると改めて思った。
『ザ・ギャンブラー――ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪』第Ｉ部の要約については、訳者のわたしがまずざっと訳したうえで重要な部分をまとめ上げ、それを英語にして著者ウィリアム・Ｃ・レンペルに確認してもらった。レンペルは訳者の要約を念入りにチェックし、建設的なコメントをつけて戻してくれた。訳者はそれに沿ってふたたび日本語を調整した。訳者が書いて著者が見てくれた第Ｉ部の英語版要約は訳者上杉隼人のブログGetUpEnglishで確認できる。（「訳者あとがき」より）
An English Abstract for “The Making of a Man” of
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History (1)
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/getupenglish/e/70e301cd65a28896fa695736065bb84c
An English Abstract for “The Making of a Man” of
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History (2)
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/getupenglish/e/a768b9286031f59068c6bd60419b390d
An English Abstract for “The Making of a Man” of
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History (3)
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/getupenglish/e/fa86a03c333b7aa46e785be888f49634
もうすぐ発売です。本書で名前が本のどこかにクレジットされた翻訳書は70冊となります。名前がクレジットされていない翻訳書（英日、日英）や英語による書下ろし書を入れると、100冊は超えているかもしれません。
最近はミスつづきでヘコんでますが、こんなわたしを使ってくださるみなさんに海より深く感謝いたします。
さらに何倍も努力と精進を重ねます。どうかよろしくお願いします。
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ザ・ギャンブラー
ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪
https://www.diamond.co.jp/book/9784478106914.html
紙版
ウィリアム・Ｃ・レンペル 著/上杉隼人 訳
定価：本体1,800円＋税
発行年月：2020年08月 [予約受付中]
判型/造本：46並
頁数：416
ISBN：9784478106914
内容紹介
無一文から総資産200億ドルへ。ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った「20世紀最強の勝負師」カーク・カーコリアンの生き方と「全取引」。ウォールストリート・ジャーナル、ワシントン・ポスト、シアトルブックレビュー…etc.各紙絶賛の全米ベストセラー、ついに日本上陸!!
目次
はじめに
プロローグ 人生はビッグなクラップスだ
世紀の取引中毒者カーク・カーコリアン
第 I 部 人間創生
一文無しのアルメニア移民の家に生まれる
中学2年で学校教育をドロップアウト、ボクサーになる
飛行機操縦士として道を開く
航空輸送ビジネスを立ち上げ、ラスベガスに目をつける
航空サービスと航空機販売の２本柱で全米有数の航空会社に
カジノ産業に参入する
「TIA」への社名変更とジェット旅客機の購入
カジノホテルのオーナーになる
TIAを買い戻し、億万長者として数々の伝説を作る
第II部 億万長者創生
第１章 ギャングたちとのトラブル 1966年12月29日、ネバダ州ラスベガス
「この町に1000室のホテルを建てようと思っている」
「あのホテルは暴力団を囲っている」
眠りから覚めた大富豪ハワード・ヒューズの「衝動買い」
第２章 大富豪vs大富豪の覇権争い 1968年１月15日、サンフランシスコ、フェアモント・ホテル
「この取引を成立させるのはむずかしいようです」
「相手はハッタリをかけているだけだ。手の内を明かしてやれ」
「虎はひとつの丘に１頭じゃないと」
「破滅的衝突に至る可能性がある」
第３章 7300万ドルの賭け 1968年12月上旬、カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルス
「この野郎」
「このクズ野郎が」
「５ドルでも500万ドルでも、無条件に使って構わない」
温厚な男の激しい怒り
第４章 世界に名を知られる 1969年バレンタインデー、ネバダ州ラスベガス
「お申し出には感謝いたします。ですが」
イッツ・ショータイム
第５章 カーク・カーコリアンとエルヴィス・プレスリー 1969年夏、ネバダ州ラスベガス
「きみがこういうの苦手だってのは、わかってるけどさ」
エルヴィス・プレスリーと500万ドル
とどまることを知らないカークのギャンブラー魂
第６章 笑うコブラ 1969年７月22日、ニューヨーク
「あなた、何に巻き込まれようとしているか、わかってます？」
「譲ってもらえないならば、おまえを殺す」
カークのMGM買収劇
第７章 挫折 1969年10月末、マイアミ
盗聴された証拠物に追い込まれていくカーク
「完全な敗北感を味わった」
第８章 敵兵去る 1970年11月25日、ネバダ州ラスベガス
「ヒューズを心から尊敬する」
「くそいまいましいカークめ」
第９章 活動再開 1971年10月24日、カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルス
映画とギャンブルを一体化させた「MGMグランド・ホテル」の誕生
「今すぐここから離れたい。どこか別のところがいい」
第10章 深淵に広がる光景 1973年晩秋、カリフォルニア州カルバーシティ
「レジャー分野での多角化がMGMを救う」
特別配当金による借金返済
第11章 特別なリスク要因 1973年12月５日、ネバダ州ラスベガス
「ハリウッドの黄金時代を後世に伝える壮観」
大成功。２億ドル。そして次のギャンブルへ
「絶対にいやだ。体裁が悪い」
第12章 パンチの応酬 1980年11月21日、ニューヨーク
「緊急事態発生」
「カークを排除するのが御社の基本方針なんですね」
「和平協定を破ったそばから侵略しようとしているようなものだ」
第13章 MGMの大惨事 1980年11月21日、ネバダ州ラスベガス
床から天井まで届くおそろしい「炎の高潮」
すべて黒焦げになって溶け落ち、手が付けられない。
第14章 保険を食い物にする悪人 1981年初頭、ネバダ州ラスベガス
投資における「敗北」からもたらされた7560万ドルの利益
誰も見たことのないカークのスピーチと「世界一安全なホテル」
「勝てるかな？」「勝ちますよ」
第15章 ひと振り100万ドルのダイス 1983年春、フランス、リビエラ
カークが好んだコーヒー、乗っていた車
第16章 テッド・ターナーの時限爆弾 1985年夏、ジョージア州アトランタ
「あっちには『トップガン』があるのに、うちは『ボトムガン』じゃないか！」
「世界中の誰よりも借金を抱えている」
第17章 海上での埋葬 1987年初頭、デンバー
MGMの再生と『レインマン』
「最後のお別れだから手を貸してほしい」
第18章 億万長者のひとりとして 1988年12月７日、アルメニア・ソビエト社会主義共和国、スピタク
シャイな億万長者のクールな救援劇
「アルメニアが援助を必要とする限り、空輸をつづけてくれ」
億万長者リスト入りを切望したドナルド・トランプ
「差し上げよう」
第III部 伝説創生
第19章 打席に立つベーブ・ルース 1990年９月、カリフォルニア州ビバリーヒルズ
「魔法の３文字」とMGMグランド社の設立
ヤンキー・スタジアムより大きいカジノ
第20章 やっかい者のアイアコッカ 1995年４月11日、ニューヨーク
クライスラーの裏切り
「誰もが彼のような株主をもつべきだよ」
「からかっているのか？」
夢は「最後のミセス・カーク」になること
第21章 彼女はあくまで固執した 1996年夏、カリフォルニア州ビバリーヒルズ
「頭がからっぽの美人の、どこがいいっていうの？」
詐欺まがいの「妊娠作戦」と新しい恋人
第22章 ライフル・ライト、マイク・タイソンを受け入れる 1997年６月28日、ネバダ州ラスベガス
「こいつ、噛みつきやがった！」
第23章 大量虐殺と寛容さ 1998年夏、カークのプライベート・ジェットの機内で
「彼らの好きなように発表させればいい」
「ここに置いていったら、この先、何されるかわからないだろう？」
「インサイダー情報です」
第24章 勝って負ける 1999年３月、ロサンゼルス、ホテル・ベルエアー
「結婚しましょうよ」
腹を空かせたアリゲーターの物語
結婚式は、13日の金曜日
宝石を衝動買いする女
「わたしがすべて買い上げるのはどうかな？」
「一度の取引ですべての肉を骨から剥ぎ取る必要はない」
第25章 致命的誘引 2001年１月、カリフォルニア州ナッツベリーファーム
「ノー！」
「個人的ATM」でいるのはもうごめんだ
「殺しちゃったほうがいいのかもね」
9.11とカーク・カーコリアン
第26章 取引仲介人たちの神 2002年初頭、カリフォルニア州ビバリーヒルズ
「笑いごとではなかったのよ」
食事代に「月１万1000ドル」
アメリカ最高の「80歳代のテニス・プレーヤー」を目指す
すべてのディールメーカーの神
第27章 わが道を行く 2009年３月、ネバダ州ラスベガス
90歳のプロポーズ
「方向転換しろ。家に帰る」
純資産を150億ドル減らした男
第28章 大理石のアッパーカット 2010年春、ビバリーヒルズ、ノース・ロクスベリー ── ドライブ1014
「ここから出せ……」
「１週間のうちに閉鎖しろ」
アンドレ・アガシの感謝
「わたしを置いて行かないで」
諦めない「あの女」
「きみなら信じられる」
最後の夜
エピローグ カーク最後の取引 2017年４月12日、ハリウッド大通り
終わらない裁判
天国の取引
カーク・カーコリアン「７つの成功の秘訣」
本書について 〜 謝辞
訳者あとがき
著者
ウィリアム・C・レンペル（William C. Rempel）
1947年生まれ。アメリカの作家、報道記者。『ロサンゼルス・タイムズ』紙に記者として36年間勤務し、アメリカ国内外のさまざまな記事を担当した。ビジネスおよび金融ジャーナリズムの記者に与えられるジェラルド・ローブ賞（1980年）ほか、著名な賞も受賞している。2002年には「テロを暴く」の記事で『ロサンゼルス・タイムズ』紙の同僚記者たちとゴールドスミス賞調査報道部門の最終候補。ほかの著書に、コロンビアの犯罪組織カリ・カルテルを崩壊に導いた内部通報者ジョルジ・サルセード・カブレラについて描く『悪魔のテーブルで』（2011）、フィリピンに独裁政権を作り上げたフェルディナンド・マルコス大統領に関する克明な記録『独裁者の妄想』（1993）、『独裁者の妄想』を加筆・改訂した電子書籍『独裁者の日記』（2015）がある。
訳者
上杉隼人（うえすぎ・はやと）
翻訳者（英日、日英）、編集者、英文ライター、英語・翻訳講師。早稲田大学教育学部英語英文学科卒業、同専攻科（現在の大学院の前身）修了。専攻はアメリカ文学。訳書に『スター・ウォーズ』（全作〔エピソード I 〜IX〕）『アベンジャーズ エンドゲーム』『スパイダーマン ファー・フロム・ホーム』『STAR WARS クリーチャーズ＆エイリアンズ大全』（いずれも講談社）、ジョン・ル・カレ『われらが背きし者』（岩波現代文庫）、リチャード・ホロウェイ『若い読者のための宗教史』、ジェームズ・ウエスト・デイビッドソン『若い読者のためのアメリカ史』、マット・タディ『ビジネスデータサイエンスの教科書』（いずれもすばる舎）ほか多数（70冊以上）。
著者インタビューもぜひご覧ください。現在、鋭意英文をtranscribe中で、日本語にもします。
来月ダイヤモンド社から発売の『ザ・ギャンブラー――ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪』。
帯の文句などは事前に著者に許可を得る必要がある。
編集者の今野良介さんの力作コピーを英語にする仕事をさせてもらったが、大変楽しい作業だった。
今日のGetUpEnglishは、今野さんのすばらしいコピーとわたしの英訳を紹介する。
Cover (Front)
ザ・ギャンブラー: ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪
The Gambler―The Legendary Millionaire Who Built Hollywood and Las Vegas
ウィリアム・C・レンペル
上杉隼人（訳）
William C. Rempel
Hayato Uesugi (translator)
ダイヤモンド社
Diamond Publishing
帯表
Blurbs(Back)
ザ・ギャンブラー: ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪
The Gambler―The Legendary Millionaire Who Built Hollywood and Las Vegas
無一文から純資産200億ドル
How Penniless Dropout Became the Greatest Deal Maker with 20 Billion Dollars
MGMグランドホテル＆カジノ創業者にして20世紀最強の勝負師カーク・カーコリアンの「全生涯取引」
Kirk Kerkorian, one of the founders of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, was the boldest gambler in the 20th century.
The man and all his deals!
ウォールストリート・ジャーナル、ワシントンポスト、シアトルブックレビュー、各紙絶賛の全米ベストセラー、日本上陸。
A national best-seller, highly acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Seattle Book Review and other media, is finally being released in Japan!
ダイヤモンド社
Diamond Publishing
帯裏
Blurbs(Back)
ドナルド・トランプと比較され、エルヴィス・プレスリーをスターにのし上げ、ハワード・ヒューズと覇権を争う、マイク・タイソンの伝説を作り、世界最大級のカジノホテルを創業……etc.
Compared to Donald Trump, the man behind Elvis Presley’s rise to stardom, a deal maker in competition with Howard Hughes, the creator of the Mike Tyson legend, and the creator of the biggest hotel in the world!
“ビジネスの神様”と呼ばれた男のすべて。
驚天動地のビジネス・ノンフィクション!!
All about the “God of Business.”
An astounding nonfiction business story!
刊行にあわせて、著者ウィリアム・Ｃ・レンペルにインタビューした。ぜひご覧ください！
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/getupenglish/e/636ac6273d04d7c116f09062ff9de1cb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V809w-WpgeE
『ザ・ギャンブラー――ハリウッドとラスベガスを作った伝説の大富豪』 の著者、ウィリアム・Ｃ・レンペルにオンライン・インタビューしました。
ビル、すっごくカッコよかった！
AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM C. REMPEL
Now, online!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V809w-WpgeE
Hello everyone. This is Hayato Uesugi, a Japanese editor, translator, writer, and English and translation lecturer in Tokyo.
With me online today is the one and only William C. Rempel, the author of The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History. That national best seller which was highly acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Seattle Book Review and other media, is finally being released in Japan!
Hello Bill.
......
Check it out!
An English Abstract for “The Making of a Man” of
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History (3)
by Hayato Uesugi
*I don’t know why, but we cannot use the word “gambling” on the Goo blog. I changed the word to “G” in all three articles “An English Abstract for ‘The Making of a Man’ of The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History” (1)(2)(3). Sorry for your inconvenience.
■Back to the Hotel Industry
Kirk's TIA had now grown into a profitable company. About that time, Sherwood Harry Egbert, president of Indiana's established vehicle manufacturer Studebaker Corporation, flew in to make a deal. He wanted to acquire Kirk Kerkorian’s TIA. Egbert’s company launched a stylish car called Avanti and made various investments.
Upon the acquisition, Egbert and Studebaker suggested as follows: TIA would be a member of Studebaker, but Kirk Kerkorian would continue to serve as President of TIA, and at the same time become Vice President of Studebaker. In addition, he would get 120,000 shares of Studebaker stock for $8.25 per share. The company would also bear the remaining debt of DC-8 Kirk had to pay. Other attractive suggestions were also made.
By accepting all of these conditions, Kirk indeed became a millionaire.
Kirk Kerkorian had already looked at new challenges beyond managing air services: Investing in Las Vegas land.
Kerkorian frequently made round trips to and from the San Francisco Bay Area and Las Vegas, but all aircrafts were already under the control of Studebaker, so he had to get his private Cessna (twin-engine Cessna 310) for $50,000. He had not invested in real estate for a while since the failure of The Dunes' investment in 1955, but he now decided to go back to the hotel industry. The native gambler was finally awake.
In 1962, he received $1 million from Studebaker and purchased eighty acres of sand and bush across the Strip from the Flamingo Hotel for $960,000.
Shortly thereafter, Jay Sarno, a real estate developer visited the city. He was funded by Jimmy Hoffa, chairman of the Trucking Union, and Allen Dorfman, chairman of the National Trucking Pension Fund. Sarno considered building an ancient Roman-themed casino hotel in the area including on Kirk’s land. Sarno came to see Kirk to exchange a land lease agreement with him. They had a business meeting over a dinner on a summer evening in 1963. Kirk had 15% of the casino's profits and a $15,000 lease, plus a personal suite room when the hotel opened.
In 1966, the hotel opened under the name of Caesars Palace. Born as an unencumbered child of Armenian immigrants, dropped out of school in grade 8 (second year of junior high school), set up an aviation service company after learning to fly, Kirk Kerkorian, a gambler in Las Vegas, at last owned his own casino interest as the landlord of Caesars Palace at the age of 46.
■Buying Back TIA and Becoming a Legendary Billionaire
Kirk Kerkorian valued his relationship with Armenian Americans. In 1963 when he had a dinner with his wife Jean at a restaurant on the Strip, a Persian American who had Armenian parents served them. Kirk came to like the Tehran-born young server named Manny who loved boxing and tennis. And they became good friends in their future life. Manny already had two children, and his next child was given a middle name to prove his friendship with Kirk. The child, named André Kirk Agassi, would be a major tennis star in the future.
Kirk was greatly indebted to Armenian Americans in business. He met George Mason, who ran the English-language Armenian newspaper California Courier.
Studebaker, the automaker that bought Kirk's TIA, was in trouble. Their major reduction plan was announced in December 1963. As a result, some companies tried to buy TIA from Studebaker. Kirk was determined to oppose the sale of his air transport service company. He tried to get it back in his hands. With another $2 million in funding, including the one from Walter Sharp of the Bank of America, he succeeded in returning TIA to his hands in September 1964.
In 1964, Kirk experienced a lot of things. He met Jay Sarno and became the owner of the Caesars Hotel. To his sadness, his mother Lily died in January. Immediately after buying back TIA, his father also passed away.
Kirk went even further. He went public with TIA's shares in August 1965 with the help of George Mason and his magazine California Courier. The company’s stocks were traded double and three times higher than was expected. Kirk regained $2 million in months to buy back TIA from Studebaker.
(The translator wrote in more detail about what Kerkorian did to get his company back.)
Kirk was about to turn 47. It was the age some might consider retiring. But Kirk Kerkorian's legendary “G” life had just begun. By repeatedly buying and selling hotels and movie companies as well as automobile companies, he kept on growing into a businessperson who represented capitalism in the 20th century. Until he died at the age of 98, he would try every possible challenge he could do.
This book is a marvelous non-fiction book about the life of a Man of whom little had previously been written about. This person's life will surprise and impress not only Americans but everyone in the world. This great author William C. Rempel’s masterpiece will knock everyone's socks off.
Also check
An English Abstract for “The Making of a Man” of
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History (2)
by Hayato Uesugi
*I don’t know why, but we cannot use the word “gambling” on the Goo blog. I changed the word to “G” in all three articles “An English Abstract for ‘The Making of a Man’ of The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History” (1)(2)(3). Sorry for your inconvenience.
■ His Business Went Well
One of the regular customers of Kirk's air transport service company was Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, who was familiar with the casino world in Las Vegas. Siegel often arrived at Kirk’s Los Angeles Air Services just before closing and asked to fly to Las Vegas immediately. In such cases, Kirk piloted the plane himself.
Siegel was also the owner of the Flamingo, a new hotel in Las Vegas at the time. The hotel, with its casino and nightclub, was considered to represent a new era in Las Vegas.
Kirk himself also was into “G”. He was spreading his name as a casino high roller in the city.
(The translator also writes about Kirk’s relation with Ralph Lam.)
Los Angeles Air Services continued to expand, moving its headquarters to the Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank in 1950, and purchasing a number of aircraft cheaply.
At the same time, Kirk started a new business buying aircraft owned by the company and selling them to other companies, which also hit the jackpot. Los Angeles Air Services continued to grow with two pillars: air services and aircraft sales.
In the early 30s, Kirk Kerkorian was already quite successful as an entrepreneur and was on the road to a billionaire.
(The translator also writes about an interesting episode when Kirk Kerkorian was extremely courteous in winning and losing “G” at the “G” table at the casino such that he was called "Perry Como of the craps table.")
However, his dedication to business and his frequent “G” trips to the casino reduced the time he spent with his wife Peggy, and they finally divorced on September 27, 1951.
■Into the Casino Business
Since the mid-1950s, new hotels and casinos have been built lining the streets of Las Vegas. Among them are seven popular casinos.
Kirk Kerkorian always went to a casino and gambled. Although losing more than winning, he still enjoyed “G” and came to understand the casino business. He made a lot of friends. One of them was Marion Hicks. Hicks called upon a young female dancer, from the UK, to hold a music show in his hotel showroom. He introduced Kirk to the dancer, Jean Maree Hardy. Kirk immediately fell in love with Jean. They married on December 5, 1954. The groom was 37 and the bride was 23.
Kirk considered business expansion after his second marriage. He wanted to get into the casino industry. Indeed, the casino business in Vegas culminated in 1955. Kirk bought a three percent stake in the newly opened Dunes Hotel for $50,000. However, because of various reasons, Kirk's 3% stake for the hotel became almost worthless.
Kirk learned a lesson: "Do not invest in businesses that you do not own."
(The translator wrote more about our hero’s struggle to get into hotel and casino business.)
■ Trans International Airlines (TIA)
In 1961, six years after marriage, Kirk had a two-year-old girl with his new wife. His Los Angeles Air Service was stable and had new business outside Burbank and Los Angeles. The company's name was changed to Trans International Airlines (TIA). His annual income had reached $300,000 or $350,000.
He always sought new challenges, new risks and new thrills.
(The translator also wrote an episode about Kirk’s boxing betting in 1961 and his trouble after that in detail.)
In 1962, competition in air service became fierce. Kirk considered purchasing the jet passenger aircraft DC-8. But it cost $5 million. To beat the competitors, he needed a modern jet airliner. TIA also had undertaken U.S. military work since 1959, which could be expected to expand.
Kirk decided to get money in a straightforward manner. Running the Los Angeles Air Service and TIA for nearly 20 years earned the trust of the industry. He consulted Walter Sharp, an old-timer at Bank of America's Montebello branch. To his gladness, Kirk was offered $2 million from the Bank’s headquarters.
Kirk was grateful for the offer, but one day he went to Long Beach to see an airplane, and found a used model of the early DC-8 that Douglas Aircraft sold in 1958. It was equipped with a more powerful engine, and the indoor equipment was further upgraded. Fortunately, with the $2 million loan from Sharp’s Bank of America, combined with Douglas Aircraft agreeing to finance the final $3 million, Kirk completed purchase of this DC-8.
Kirk eventually acquired a jetliner and started a new business to transport goods from Travis Air Force Base in California to Guam. His company continued to work well, and its revenue jumped from $250,000 to $1.1 million in less than a year.
(The translator wrote more about exciting development of his airline company.)
To be continued to
An English Abstract for “The Making of a Man” of
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History (1)
by Hayato Uesugi
*I don’t know why, but we cannot use the word “gambling” on the Goo blog. I changed the word to “G” in all three articles “An English Abstract for ‘The Making of a Man’ of The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History” (1)(2)(3). Sorry for your inconvenience.
■ Born in an Armenian family and moved to Los Angeles as a penniless boy.
Kirk Kerkorian was born on June 6 in 1917 in Fresno, California. He was the youngest son of Armenian immigrant parents, Ahron and Lily. Kirk had two brother Art and Nish and sister Rose.
In the early 20th century, Ahron Kerkorian followed his father Kasper and arrived on Ellis Island in New York before arriving in California. Ahron, a teenager in those days, was so ambitious that he wanted to be a millionaire in this country in the future.
Ahron started a business buying fruits from local farmers and selling them in the cities, and it went quite well. He married Lily from Armenia, and they were blessed with four children, including Kirk.
Although having been illiterate, Ahron Kerkorian became well-known as a fruit seller around the San Joaquin River, where he lived with his family in those days. However, his sailing was not always smooth. With a large debt on Ahron’s shoulders, the family lost everything, including their family farm, when Kirk was 5-year-old. They were forced to move to Los Angeles and start over. Kirk only spoke Armenian then, but learned English by himself, while selling newspapers on the street. In 1926, he was nine years old.
(The translator wrote about the Kerkorians’ history in more detail.)
■ Dropped out of school and became a boxer
Kirk dropped out of school education in his eighth grade in the early 1930s during the Great Depression. After that, he began working like his other brothers and sisters to support his family by playing a golf caddy or selling oranges on the streets. His brother Nish started earning money as a boxer under the name “American Assassin.”
Kirk had a close friend named Norman Hungerford in those days. Kirk and Norman worked as porters at the MGM studio in Culver City at night. At that time, Kirk never dreamed that he would buy this studio.
By performing a range of physical labor, Kirk's body gained plenty of muscle. Nish invited his brawny brother to boxing. Kirk demonstrated his talent as a boxer under the ring name “Rifle Right” Kerkorian, and set a record of 33 wins in 37 rounds without any knockout defeats by mid-1939. However, because he was so thin, Kirk would suffer serious damage like his brother, Nish. He decided to leave the ring at the age of 22.
■ Becoming an Airplane Pilot
Kirk Kerkorian’s next love was flying. After having studied at a local aeronautical school, he became a commercial pilot. In the 1940s, airplane pilots were urgently needed for the future war. Kirk then got a job teaching future pilots in California.
There were also changes in his personal life. He married Peggy on January 24, 1942. He was 24. Later, Kirk and his new wife, Peggy moved to Montreal in the spring of 1943 to take a job at the Royal Air Force. He. He demonstrated excellent maneuverability there, and performed a number of difficult tasks over the Atlantic Ocean.
Flying in the sky was always precarious. Traveling to Scotland in early June 1944 was extremely dangerous. He escaped death by the skin of my teeth in the accident then.
(The Translator wrote more about episode about Kirk’s adventure as a pilot.)
■ Launched an Air Transport Business and Focused on Las Vegas
Kirk was thinking of something else in the spring of 1945 after the War. He came to meet Water Sharp, the manager at the Witter Boulevard branch of Bank of America, to seek finance. He purchased a plane and tried to launch an air transport business. Las Vegas had been developing after the war, and while luxurious hotels were being built, nightclubs and casinos were being lined up in the Las Vegas Strip. “G” was legal in this city.
Kirk Kerkorian found this city exciting. He started a business to fly people from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and visited the city of Nevada every week with customers on a purchased plane. Kirk was immediately captivated by “G”. One of his “G” associates at that time was Jerry Williams, who frequently used Kirk's air transport service. He and his company were also honored to be patronized by the famous actor John Wayne.
Kirk's business became thriving enough to buy additional aircraft. He decided to hire a pilot he met during the RAF era.
In 1947, he borrowed $15,000 from Bank of America and $5,000 from his sister Rose, and put the money towards his purchase of an airline for $ 60,000. Kirk Kerkorian finally launched his airline company, Los Angeles Air Service.
Kirk was at just 30 years of age.
(The translator wrote more about his first company, Los Angeles Air Service.)
To be continued to
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